Me On White People.
Y’all gonna learn something interjecting your white opinions into conversations you can’t even relate to.
What if you are not using opinions, you are using facts?
Like facts supporting the inequality of jail time for non-violent offenses and the…
I am reblogging this because I both agree and disagree. Not all white people are ignorant, racist bigots. There are intelligent white people out there who are not at all apathetic about the situation of PoC all over this world, there are white people out there who UNDERSTAND the way the system works.
When I was in the 8th grade, I had a childhood crush on a black guy. I would go so far as to say that he was my first ‘love.’ We lost contact after freshman year of high school.
Thanks to Facebook, he has come back into my life. Our very first conversation as adults was about the state of PoC in this country. This man got caught up when the streets called. He is a beautiful, intelligent human being who got caught up in a cycle of oppression, crime, and a “you aint shit” mentality handed down to his people by the the ideology of white superiority that pervades this country. He was a victim of his circumstances. A victim of his environment, and a victim of the LACK of options PoC are given (especially poor PoC).
I went on a very long rant about this to him. How, white people (and not the white man working a minimum wage job to pay bills..I mean the white man we DONT see) have stripped his people of their identity. He is a descendant of those who survived the middle passage …this inherently makes him STRONG. An intelligent, strong black man is frightening to white ideology. As soon as we unshackled his ancestors, we began to mentally and physically tear them down. This is when the “you aint shit” mentality took root. And, for so many, being told you aint shit cements into your head and you think “Well, im not gonna be shit.” Not only this..but when youre hustling selling dope, making hundreds sometimes a day…and this is the environment and options that has been given to your people for generations, then some white man tells you to get a real job making less than half of what you make selling dope….ITS A FUCKING JOKE. The system is designed to strip PoC of their strength and pride and we live in an age of neo enslavement.
I said all of this to him, and then I apologized for going on a tangent. Then I said “Do you know, like, do you realize that white people are the single most BULLHEADED, IGNORANT, RACIST, DUMB MOTHER FUCKERS ON THIS PLANET?”
…and he laughed and it went silent.
A few seconds later he said “To hear you say this shit…you dont know what this means to me, as a black man. To hear all of this truth coming from a white girls mouth is ….revolutionary. We need people like you and that really just meant so much to me. You dont even know.”
All I was doing was telling the truth. So, with all due respect, I know that someone very important gave a fuck about my feelings that day. When you tell the truth, people tend to give a fuck. You just have to tell the truth.
*I also want to point out, that there are many things blacks and whites can relate to..especially if they come from the same social class. Whites will NEVER be able to relate to being black in America, or being a PoC. Never. But some whites (including myself) can relate to growing up in the hood and doing what the fuck you HAVE TO DO to provide, and survive..with the very limited options youve been given.
I follow a black conservative on Twitter. Yesterday I noticed her giving someone hell with the Twitter name “GenericNigga.” Insinuating all sorts of things about him, chastising him for using the word “Nigga.” That set me off. A black person trying to tell another black person how to be black. How to have their human experience. Fuck no. So I decided to ask:
Me: Do you think that white people are free from responsibility regarding the situations of PoC throughout the world?
: …Actually I got no answer from her for a very long time. So I asked again.
Me: Do you think that white people are free from responsibility regarding the situations of PoC throughout the world?
Her: My answer to your question, in today’s world everyone makes their own destiny, the white man is not holding me back
Me: No, thats not the answer to the question that I ASKED. What I asked was….do you think that white people are free from responsibility regarding the situations of PoC all over theworld? You also do not live in America, so I know that you cannot answer this question from the perspective of a Black American. But, sweetie, racism is real. The ideology of white superiority is real, and it pervades here, and around the world everyday. Centuries of systematic oppression DOES PLAY A ROLE in the lives of the descendants of those being oppressed and enslaved. It is incredibly difficult for a people to bring themselves up, when theyve only ever been put down. This is hard on an individual level, especially a collective level. The prevailing ideology of white superiority is still very real and it has everything to do with the lives of blacks in this country. everything. You should read ‘The Mis-Education of the Negro’, ‘Brainwashed: Challenging the myth of black inferiority.” And many more. It is not easy being black in this country. It is not easy being non-white in this WORLD. Who elses fault would that be? Do you think that centuries of slavery, oppression, deprivation and humiliation? Its only been 150-someodd years since the emancipation
proclamation.Do you think that centuries of slavery, oppression, deprivation and humiliation can be erased in 151 years?
The emotional and physical destruction, humiliation and enslavement pushed upon those who survived the Middle Passage has evolved into a perpetuating cycle. Maybe self perpetuating but it is not the VICTIMS fault.
(I dont know why the fonts changed, etc. I repasted from twitter, maybe thats why.)
